r/sleepheadphones

I liked Sony LinkBuds S; they were small, perfect for my ears, and i liked their ANC, but the battery life is an issue. 6 hours with ANC on is not enough for me. i also liked sleeping with them. i am a side sleeper, but the flat part bothered me a little bit. Sadly, the right earbud is dying, and here repair shops don't know how to repair it. i am trying to find earbuds within the same budget that have the same ANC but better battery life. preferably the same comfort level, but it seems to be impossible. i was thinking about SONY WF-C710N/WZ, but their ANC is not that good. other options: SoundCore Liberty 3 Pro, but there are mixed reviews, and sadly jabra is not available here.

I’m going to make this sorta like a Dr Seuss book:

The short story:

I do not want ANC

I do not want a sound app

I do not want unstoppable low battery alerts

I do not want onboard buttons that can’t be turned off

I do not want to spend megabucks on buds with features that I do not want just to get the features I do want ( the above)

A pillow with holes does not work for me

Sleep masks and headbands do not work for me

Side sleeper I am

Long story: 1) not even the dog snores, much less my husband, and we are in a quiet location. But he can’t stand my sleep sounds music, so I gotta get it in my ears. I don’t want to pay for ANC I don’t need.

2. I have my own tried and true playlists on my own iPad. I don’t want to have to go to, or pay for, yet another app for my sounds.

3. I have P20is and no you cannot turn off the low battery alerts on this model, not in the soundcore app, not anywhere. Wakes me up at 5 am, aside from being torture to sleep on.

4. since I don’t need the fancy features, paying a weeks income for Oslo’s and A30s makes no sense. 5)but, haven’t found cheap tiny buds that permanently turn off alerts and the buttons on the buds… they keep re-enabling. Randomly. At 4 a.m. moving my head skips the sound around, or shrill high voice shrieking “low battery!”. STFU.

5. I move around way too much to keep my ear in a pillow hole, and I have to use a special pillow for my bad neck anyhow. No go there. You people who can keep your head in one place all night- what planet are you from?!

7. A LC Dollida headband was kinda great (apart from waking up sweating my head off) until the elastic started giving me a bald spot in my hair at the top of my forehead. Masks over my eyes are not gonna happen: claustrophobic, and with all those senior night trips to bathroom, pushing it up to see will take me back to the bald spot issue. I have a low forehead so any band is a potential problem.

8. has to be tiny/flat like an Ozlo - totally a side sleeper. Frankly, I don’t care about high sound quality in the middle of the night, either. I’m ASLEEP. If it’s working.

Can anyone recommend tiny flat-ish cheap buds shaped like ozlos, that last most of the night, don’t have any freakin alerts or accidental button press issues ( and retain those settings) and don’t make one bald, or sweaty, or feel like you’re lying on a drill bit?

I’m just one cranky and impoverished old woman but jeez.

Oh yes, and you can suggest my husband wear earplugs. Good luck to me with that. The man is mostly deaf to mostly everything all day, even if he can made to wear his hearing aids, but in bed, if a sock falls silently from the bed to the floor at 2 am, he’s like WHAT’S THAT, and any modification to his own sleeping rituals results in him moaning and groaning all day, which is worse than having an earbud drill a hole into in my brain.

And … he doesn’t snore… so I kinda struck gold there.

So anyway, back to cheap “dumb” earbud suggestions?

The title is exactly what I need. Yes, I am a weird person who only likes pink noise, and I would need it to have it. Yes, I know you can use your phone. I just want to have a dedicated device / machine that won't drain any other battery being on all night. I need headphone compatibility as it is for when I am sleeping in the same room as others.

Hey so I've upgraded to the anker A30s coming from the A20s because the left ear buds stopped charging all of a sudden (second pair failing already btw). Thing is I'm getting used to the A30s but I find that:

- They aren't equalized the same ? (seems like mid and high range white noise is barely audible which is what I need to cover up the most)

- I can't find the option for them to pause the sound when I fall asleep when in local mode which is the only mode I use.

I'd really appreciate any help and keep sleeping tight.

I’m deep in the sleep earbud rabbit hole and I’m starting to hate all of them.

I was basically ready to just buy the Soundcore Sleep A30s because Anker is usually the boring safe choice. Not exciting, but probably fine. I’ve had enough soundcore liberty 4 pro stuff over the years that I at least trust them to not make something completely useless.

But now I keep seeing Ozlo and SomniPods come up, and I can’t tell if I’m missing something or just overthinking this.

I’m looking for something I can actually sleep in, not regular earbuds that technically fit in my ears. I’m a side sleeper, and my main problems are snoring, apartment noise, and random street noise. I don’t need amazing music quality. I mostly want podcasts or sleep sounds before bed, then enough noise blocking/masking that I’m not waking up pissed off at 3am.

The A30s seem like the obvious pick because they have ANC, Bluetooth, a real brand behind them, and they’re not Ozlo-level expensive. But I’ve also seen people say sleep earbuds are more about comfort than specs, and that’s where I start second guessing myself.

Ozlo seems like the fancy answer, especially from people who miss the old Bose Sleepbuds, but the price is hard to swallow. If I’m paying that much, they need to be noticeably better, not just nicer looking.

SomniPods are the one I can’t quite figure out. The thin design and ANC sound good on paper, but I don’t know if they’re actually legit or just one of those products with a really polished product page and not enough long-term user feedback yet.

Every company says theirs are great for side sleeping, snoring, and all-night use, which is useless because obviously they’re going to say that.

So for people who have actually used these: are the Soundcore A30s just the safe answer here? Or are Ozlo or SomniPods actually better if the main goal is sleeping on your side without your ears hurting?

I’m trying not to spend $200+ on something I use twice and then shove in a drawer.

Hello I hate when I have to take off my headset when I want to sleep on my side when I listen to ASMR to sleep, and I searched for a flush tiny headphones to not hurt my ears when I sleep on my side but they're so expensive like the ones made by soundcore are outrageous 180$?

For the A20? Isn't there something in the range of 30 to 60$ that has good sound quality and the same small flush design?

Can anyone tell me if the Soundcore A30s will

1. Last ±8hrs on Bluetooth mode - I don't need ANC as A20s were working fine (except the issues below) and

2. Will not automatically switch off when I fall asleep (was such a torture period before I learned how to switch off that feature the A20 - I reaf there was no way to turn this off on A30s initially ...but don't know if this got fixed??)

I am a horribly light sleeper. I've used A20s for about 6months and to start with they were like a miracle. I had the best sleeps of my life for a few days, but the problems below mean that I now have to strategically use them only from the later part of the night until waking. I really do need them to help me fall asleep because I have noisy late-night neighbours and a mega-snoring partner! I am OK with the slight bulkiness as they help me sleep so much better.

I loved the Soundcore red nose option but soon realised even with the auto-stop after falling asleep turned off, they still occasionally switched to nothing randomly - causing me to wake abruptly.

Another problem was their randomly disconnecting. To sort either problem I had to wake up and reconnect manually.

Part of the solution was to forego the nice Soundcore red noise and use a combination white noise I have created from a free app (Whitenoise Light - highly recommend it) via Bluetooth from the outset. This - and remembering to take my phone with me to the bathroom in the night helped resolve most issues.

Now I am dealing with an ever shortening battery life which has gone from about 6-7hours down to approximately ±5hr.

I am willing to fork out for A30s but need to know they 1) Can last ±8hrs on Bluetooth mode and 2) Will not automatically switch off when I fall asleep.

Any advice or insight welcome.

Thank you.

I bought both to compare and plan to return one, but I cannot decide which ones! I’m finding the noise cancelling on them to be very similar.

Pros for soundcore:
Cheaper
Feels more “high end”
Feel very secure in my ear
The case shows the battery life
Better sound quality
Longer battery life

Pros for Fitnexa
More complicated to return (not really a pro for them, but it would be much simpler if I were to return soundcore to Amazon)
Comfier to sleep in

Anyone have any advice between the 2? Maybe know how they will hold up in the long run? Which would you keep?

As they're discontinued, I won't be able to get another pair, so I'm looking for something that will help me sleep.

For reference, I cannot get to sleep without comfortable earbuds that block out my partner's snoring, whilst playing my own media, and I have multiple health conditions that mean I need to get a lot of good quality sleep.

They need to be:

- in-ear (not headband or bone conduction)

- Bluetooth

- small (like TINY), both the actual device but also the tips

- able to play my own audio

- suitable for all sleep positions, but especially side

- ideally last longer than 18 months-2 years

Don't necessarily need ANC, especially if it means battery life is much less or it doesn't last as long.

I currently also have the Jabra Elite Active 8, and the Air pods Pro 2nd Gen, which I do like for different reasons but both are much too big for me to sleep in.

The Anker Soundcore Sleep A20 and A30 seem to be the best options as far as I'm aware, but because this is so important to my sleep quality, I want to make sure I'm getting the best ones I can.

Hey,

Looking for in ear recommendations please. Not the pillow or the band btw, use a sleep ap machine so cant use the band and I have a great pillow so not looking to change.

A30s and Ozlo all sound great but cost a bomb and I dont need anc or white noise. Just need a good little pair of in ear buds that I can ideally sleep on without it hurting.

Any recommendations? Tia